In Germany at 4pm there is Kaffee und Kuchen Zeit - or coffee and cake time. It's a chance to sit and chat with friends while drinking coffee and nibbling something delicious. I hope that is what this blog will be. A chance to share some recipes, kick back, and enjoy.

Monday, October 15, 2012

I had kind of lost the inspiration to
post here for a while.I felt that I had
run out of fun stories, or anything meaningful to say.

Perhaps that is slowly coming back.

So instead I wanted to share with you a
montage of photos taken by a friend of mine (Thank you Leila!) a few weekends ago.When I saw all of these, I thought I had just
participated in one of those super-posh food magazine weekends.You know what I mean, when you look through
food magazine articles about some fabulous get-together that super wealthy and
exclusive people have all while trying to appear as casual as humanly possible.

I went to Rockport, Mass. to visit some
friends, and while I was there, I put them to work.We cut, cored and peeled 2 full pecks of
apples, which in lay-speak is approximately a “sh*t-ton”, or so I was
told.We then canned those apples for
apple pie filling.2 pecks turned out to
be far more than we needed, as I managed to make 12 cans (2 of which exploded
and needed to be refrigerated and not stored) and 2 apple crisps.

But the beauty of a rainy cool autumnal
day when apple, cinnamon and sugar mingle together throughout a tiny apartment
overlooking a sleepy fishing harbor reawakened something creative inside of
me.Well, that or the mixed drink we
created using the leftover apple and lemon preserving juice.Either way, perhaps I will make a
reappearance here.